Portable building



1. FLACK AN-D P. SCHEPP.

PORTABLE BUILDING.

I APPLICATIQN FILED DEC. 10, 1920.

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PORTABLE BUILDING.

Application filed December 10,1920. 1

To all to 710m it may concern 2 Be it known that we, JOHN FLACK andPETER Sorrnrr, citizens of the United States of America, and residentsof La Salle, county of La Salle, and State of Illinois, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Portable Buildings, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to portable buildings having numerous uses, suchas temporary stores, camps, barracks, voting booths, etc., and isdesigned to be suitable for transport on a power truck or fiat car.

The objects of the invention are to provide an extensible building ofthis nature which when the sections thereof are in telescopic relationprovides a suitable storage place for supplies while the structure is ofsuch dimensions as to permit convenient mounting on a flat car orsimilar transporting device.

The objects of the invention are attained by a structure as illustratedin the drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows a plan of the building withthe telescopic sections thereof in extended relation and with the roofremoved.

Figure 2 is a similar plan view but with the sections of the buildingtelescoped to minimum dimensions.

Figure 8 is an elevation in longitudinal section taken on he line 3-3 ofFigure 1.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the extended building with the roofremoved.

Figure 5 is a transverse vertical section taken on the line 5-5 ofFigure 1.

Figure 6 is an end view of the building when telescoped to minimumdimensions and shows the roof in place withhinged portions thereofoutside of and secured to the side walls of the building. g

The general features of the structure comprises a central rectangularframe which may be of proportions or dimensions similar to thesuperstructure of a box car; The side walls of the building aresupported by beams which have telescopic relation with the framestructure and may be drawn outwardly, thus increasing the exteriordimensions of the building approximately three times that of the centralframe structure. The central frame structure is provided with a fixedfloor and separate floor sections are hinged thereto to provide floorsfor the side sections of the building, but which may be Serial No.429,691.

swung up to vertical position when it is desired to reduce thedimensions of the build ing. i

Referring to the drawings, the central frame structure 1 is closed atits ends by the end walls 2 and 3 having sliding doors and 5 therein.The side walls 6 and 7 are rigid with transverse beams 8 which areslidably supported in the central frame structure 1. The side walls may,therefore, be moved away from the central frame structure 1 in order toincrease the dimensions and capacity of the building. The floors 9 forthe side sections of the building .are in hinged relation with the floor10 of the central section. Therefore, after the side walls are drawnoutwardly the floors or wings 9 are lowered from their vertical positioninto their normal. horizontal position. The rear end walls 11 of theside sections of the building are in overlapping sliding relation withthe end wall 2 of the central section, while the front walls 12 of theside sections are in overlapping hinged relation with the front end wall3 of the central section. The steps 13 are also hinged to the centralsection and when not in use may be swung to a vertical position andserve to retain the end walls 12 in closed position against the endwalls 8 of the cen tral section. The outer lower corners of the sidesections carry screw jackets 14: whereby the building may be properlylevel. The roof 15 if formed in three sections, the side sections orwings 16 thereof being hinged to the central section in order that whenthe building is telescoped to minimum dimensions the section 16 of theroof may be lowered and secured to the side walls 7.

In transporting the building, it is reduced to the compact structureillustrated in Figure 6. while like a box car provides con siderablespace in the central section for the housing of supplies. The operationof ex tending the building consists in propping up the sections 16 ofthe roof and then drawing the side walls 7 outwardly to the maximumdistance permitted and lowering the floor sections 9. The steps arelowered and the end walls 12 of the side sections are swung into placeto close the ends of these sections.

Although but one specific embodiment of this invention has been hereinshown and described, it will be understood that numerous details of theconstruction shown may be vmounted at each end of said central frame,

said hinged members being swingable outwardly into position to close theside sections When said side Walls occupy their extended positions isand being swingable inwardly into overlapping relation to close the endsof said central framevwhen the buildin is collapsed.

@igned at Chicago this 2nd day of Dec. 1920.

JOHN FLAOK.

PETER SOHEPP.

